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MessageBird Outage History

Every past MessageBird outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 587 MessageBird outages since September 2018. The 57 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor May 13, 2026

May 2026: Issues Listing Journeys in UI [EU]

Detected May 13, 2026 7:33 AM EDT · Resolved May 13, 2026 9:34 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

MessageBird experienced a UI display issue where journeys were not visible in the user interface for 2 hours in the EU region. Journey execution continued to run normally in the background, with only the viewing and listing functionality affected. The engineering team identified and implemented a fix, resolving the display issue completely.

Minor May 12, 2026

May 2026: Journey Processing Delays [EU]

Detected May 12, 2026 9:41 AM EDT · Resolved May 12, 2026 10:19 AM EDT · Duration 39 minutes

MessageBird experienced delays in journey processing in their EU region for 39 minutes. The delays affected the speed at which customer journeys were being processed through their system. The team implemented a fix and monitored the results before confirming full resolution of the processing delays.

Minor May 8, 2026

May 2026: SMS delivery interruption - Netherlands - KPN 20408

Detected May 8, 2026 6:55 AM EDT · Resolved May 16, 2026 3:45 AM EDT · Duration 8 days

MessageBird experienced SMS delivery issues in the Netherlands affecting KPN customers, where messages to a small subset of users were delayed or failed to deliver completely. The incident impacted SMS services in the EMEA region and lasted approximately 188.8 hours. The issue was resolved through collaboration with KPN's engineering teams.

Minor May 1, 2026

May 2026: Elevated Errors with Conversations API

Detected May 1, 2026 4:06 PM EDT · Resolved May 1, 2026 5:39 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

MessageBird's Conversations API experienced elevated errors affecting bot conversations in the EU region for 1.6 hours. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented to resolve the service disruption.

Minor April 7, 2026

April 2026: Wait step in automations having degraded performance

Detected Apr 7, 2026 1:49 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 7, 2026 4:34 AM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

MessageBird experienced degraded performance in the wait step functionality of their automations service for 2.8 hours. A rapid spike in automation activity overwhelmed the infrastructure's autoscaling capabilities, creating a temporary processing backlog. The issue was resolved by scaling systems to meet demand and fully processing the accumulated backlog.

Minor March 31, 2026

March 2026: New campaign activation failures in EP marketing suite

Detected Mar 31, 2026 7:29 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 31, 2026 9:50 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

MessageBird experienced campaign activation failures in their EP Marketing Suite, where newly activated campaigns were failing approximately 10 minutes after activation. The issue affected campaigns created within a 30-minute window and lasted for 2.4 hours. The problem was resolved with a fix implementation, and affected customers were advised to retry their failed campaigns.

Minor March 24, 2026

March 2026: Failures adding contacts to lists

Detected Mar 24, 2026 9:49 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 24, 2026 10:39 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

MessageBird experienced a 49-minute service disruption where users were unable to add contacts to lists. The issue was investigated, a fix was implemented, and the service was restored to normal operation.

Minor March 23, 2026

March 2026: Delays processing flow events in AP - south 1

Detected Mar 23, 2026 3:29 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 23, 2026 5:35 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

MessageBird experienced delays processing flow events in the AP-south 1 region, impacting Flows and Journeys functionality. The service team implemented a fix and monitored the results before confirming full resolution. The incident lasted approximately 2.1 hours from detection to resolution.

Minor March 11, 2026

March 2026: Delays in processing a subset of flows & journeys contact-added-to-list triggers

Detected Mar 11, 2026 9:52 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 11, 2026 11:10 AM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

MessageBird experienced processing delays affecting flows and journeys that use contact-added-to-list triggers. The issue impacted a subset of these automated workflows, causing them to process more slowly than normal. The incident was resolved after 1.3 hours of investigation and remediation.

Minor February 23, 2026

February 2026: MMS service is currently experiencing issues delivering to US numbers

Detected Feb 23, 2026 5:30 PM EST · Resolved Feb 23, 2026 7:16 PM EST · Duration about 2 hours

MessageBird's MMS service experienced delivery failures to US-based phone numbers for 1.8 hours. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented, with the service returning to normal operation. All affected MMS messages to US routes were restored after monitoring confirmed the resolution.